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CORSET.

No. 584,778. Patented June 22, 1.897.

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FRIEDRICH AUGUST IIIEKEL, OF OLBERNIIAU, GERMANY.

CO RSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,778, dated .T une 422, 1897,.

Application iled February 7, 1896. Serial No. 578,373. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cena? Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH AUGUST HIEKEL, manufacturer, of 170 Friebergerstrasse, Olbernhau, Saxony, Germany, have invented an Improved Corset, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The present invention relates to a corset or stays in which the lacing extending right up the back as hitherto ordinarily employed is dispensed with.

This invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l shows the corset together with the fastening in the open state. Fig. 2 shows the same in the closed state and on a smaller scale. Fig. 3 illustrates details of the corset.

According to my present invention the corset is provided with a belt Z9, which is composed of two or three or more insertions a, made of metal or other suitable strong material. These are sewed or woven in or loosely or otherwise suitably inserted and inclose the -waist and allow perfect freedom of movement of the body of the wearer.

To the rear longitudinal busls c of the corset there are secured (for instance, sewed or riveted) two short steel or other suit-able bars or plates d, which are provided with holes for the reception of the laces and which overlap each other to a greater or less extent, according to the stoutness of the wearer, and are locked together at A. In this corset the ordinary lacing, which extends right up and down the back in ordinary corsets7 is dispensed with.

In front the corset is fastened together in the usual or any suitable manner--for instance, by means of hooks e and eyes f.

At the level of the breast there may be employed, if desired, another device g, (of the kind shown at en) which may be sewed in the material and which shall take up the pressure of the vertical steels or whalebones h, (that are sewed in the materiaL) and t-hus obviate the pressure acting directly upon the body of the wearer.

Connected to the horizontal steels g there are also arranged at the back of the corset two steel plates 7.o 7.a, which overlap each other and are laced together, as shown at B, in the manner hereinafter described with reference to d, so as to produce a non-elastic band, which, nevertheless, is adjustable, but when adjusted by lacing through the plates is rigid.

Vhat I claim, and desire to secure loy Letters Patent of the United States, isn

l. A corset comprising two complemental sections each having anon-elastic band se cured across or around it at the waist-line thereof, and' perforated plates secured to the lopposite ends of each band at the rear opening, said plates being overlapped for the- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 

